Benchmarks: Comanche 4

The
Comanche 4 benchmark demo is a unique benchmark as it represents a real-world
gaming experience. It contains the single player "Eagle's Talon" mission from
the game as well as a detailed cinematic. This DirectX 8.1 benchmark demo will
measure your system's performance in the standard frames per second format. The
benchmark was run with audio disabled.

Comanche 4 1024x768

Video
Card

FPS

Ranking

1.

ATi
Radeon 9700 Pro

57.01

2.

MSI G4Ti4600-TD

55.69

3.

Albatron GF4 Ti4200P Turbo

53.51

4.

Albatron GF4 Ti4680P Turbo

53.98

5.

Albatron GF4 Ti4680P Turbo (305/695)

55.75

Comanche
4 is very much system limited, that's why all the cards perform about the same
at 1024x768.

Comanche 4 1280x1024

Video
Card

FPS

Ranking

1.

ATi
Radeon 9700 Pro

56.53

2.

MSI G4Ti4600-TD

52.4

3.

Albatron GF4 Ti4200P Turbo

48

4.

Albatron GF4 Ti4680P Turbo

48

5.

Albatron GF4 Ti4680P Turbo (305/695)

53.9

Comanche 4 1600x1200

Video
Card

FPS

Ranking

1.

ATi
Radeon 9700 Pro

54.97

2.

MSI G4Ti4600-TD

46.13

3.

Albatron GF4 Ti4200P Turbo

39.13

4.

Albatron GF4 Ti4680P Turbo

39.69

5.

Albatron GF4 Ti4680P Turbo (305/695)

46.54

The two
Albatron cards lag behind quite a bit as the resolution is turned up because
they simply run out of memory bandwidth. As you can see, overclocking boosts
performance quite a bit especially at high resolutions.